Food and sex have long been intimate bedfellows. What's the endgame of a dinner date but the prospect of the coital desserts waiting at home? It seems only natural, then, to combine the two. In that spirit — and with a nod to the upcoming national day of love and lust — we trekked to the naughty Meccas of the city to sample the many edible sex toys the market has to offer.

From fruit-flavored gels that numb to cinnamon-spiced oils that tingle, liquid aphrodisiacs to candy thongs, we left no lube un-tasted, no flavored condom un-licked. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't always pleasant, but hey, neither is sex. We've got your guide to dining in and eating out this Valentine's Day. Bon Appétit!

Review: Summer Blink If autumn and your imminent mid-30s are starting make you feel too sluggish, static, or reasonable, you might consider viewing Summer Blink , a new Seacoast-area movie that limns volatility and sexual curiosity circa age 18.

Review: Rolling Die gets Closer The relativity of truth is one of the enduring problems of the last half-century, and it is particularly gray and dangerous in Patrick Marber's 1996 drama Closer .

Jenny Holzer's projections remake buildings Jenny Holzer is not an architect, but in 2004, when she projected those words onto the stone facade of the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan's Times Square, the historic building acquired a character it had never before seen.

Photos: The Slutcracker 2010 The Slutcracker: A Burlesque takes its sexy Nutcracker makeover to the Somerville Theatre through December 24, 2010.

Don't be an idiot We're all idiots when we're 18. We're all idiots for the first half of our 20s, and longer, for some. By saying so, we're not trying to insult anyone.

Fusing porn with high art Porn in the form of prose and poems, along with sexy and graphic illustrations and photos, fill the pages of Salacious , a new magazine dedicated to erotic art and literature, the likes of which you may never have seen — at least not compiled in one place.

From porn star to professor: Annie Sprinkle Annie Sprinkle's contemporary lectures are known to be fairly explicit: She has at times pleasured herself on stage, while encouraging those in the audience to do likewise in their seats.

Review: Tabloid After taking on former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara in The Fog of War (2003), and probing the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Errol Morris deserves to have fun.